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7 Feb

Accidental @KitCamApp photo last night. #kitcam #agno #denim #tumblr

25 Oct

My 10 week old Retina MacBook Pro’s battery died over night… Yay for warranties! Time to call Apple.

11 Jun

The new MacBook Pro with Retina Display.

Top of my Wish List. My old 2008 MacBook Pro is feeling it’s age.

Updated with 1080p video

(Source: apple.com)

13 Jan

Mini Dark Knight Rises (Shot with Mattebox)

25 Feb

MacBook Pro Benchmarks (Early 2011) vs (Late 2008)

“Even though Apple’s new MacBook Pros look like the old MacBook Pros, there’s a lot that’s new and exciting under the hood…” -primatelabs.ca

2.6 to almost 3 times as fast as my first generation unibody MacBook Pro! These scores do make the new MacBook Pros more tempting than just judging on face value. The high-end 17” MacBook Pro is even faster than all but the recent high-end Mac Pros.

24 Feb

The new MacBook Pro

Not quite the huge update I was hoping for.. Might make my late 2008 MacBook Pro last a little longer.

Thunderbolt is real, and cool. HD “FaceTime” cameras are now standard. 7 Hour battery life. Core i7 CPU in all 15” and 17” models. Also of note, Apple has switched to AMD (ATI) graphics cards from Nvidia for the first time in years.

No rumored “hybrid SSD” that I was hyped for. An SSD for the OS and Apps to run from and a standard hard drive for media and documents would have been a dream come true.

15 Apr

If I were to upgrade to a new MacBook Pro, here’s the specs I’d pick.

I’d have to look at the benchmarks to see if the CPU speeds are worth the +$100 for the fastest i5 or +$300 for the i7.

But I’m not upgrading for a while, I’m going to wait at least until fall to upgrade from my late 2008 15” unibody; 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD. It’s still doing it’s job, though I’d love to have 8GB of RAM.

13 Apr

New i5 and i7 MacBook Pros out today.

Would love to upgrade, but I’m going to squeeze another year (or so) out of my late 2008 (first gen unibody) 15” before I upgrade again. This is the first Mac I’ve owned that hasn’t felt like it’s becoming outdated (slow) while I own it; CPU speeds have finally caught-up with most software demands.

25 Aug

Cool minimal design: BookArc Stand Turns a MacBook Into a Desktop [via gizmodo.com]

24 Aug

Late 2008 MacBook Pro screen flicker/blink fix

I’ve been noticing a slight flickr in my MacBook Pro’s display lately, mostly when an external display is connected and only when booted into Mac OS X (I also run Windows for games). This morning I did a quick Google on the subject and came-up with what seems to be the most likely cause and fix.

MacBook Pros are more likely to exhibit this issue when using the GeForce 9400M integrated GPU (Better battery life) rather than the GeForce 9600M GT standalone card for better performance. This makes total sense; the lesser GPU would be more stressed by also running an external display.

With a quick check of my Energy Saver preferences I noticed that my MBP was somehow set back to the “Better battery life” setting (ie the GeForce 9400M integrated GPU)… This may also explain lower framerates when I’m playing games in Windows. I reset my PRAM and switched back to the “Better performance” setting, and so far so good.